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Leo Varadkar story in The Village??? - Mod Notes and banned Users in OP updated 16/05

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    #6002
    Ireland2021
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭Ireland2021


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    When is the result of the investigation into Bobby’s funeral being concluded.

    Wasn’t Michelle O’Neill sitting deputy leader of NI interviewed?

    Not so unusual maybe???

    What has a funeral in Northern Ireland got to do with Leo lying to the Dail and the Gardai investigating his leaking of documents

    Unless he leaked the docs to Mr Storey, i fail to see the relevance


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    #6003
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,482 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Ireland2021 wrote: »
    What has a funeral in Northern Ireland got to do with Leo lying to the Dail and the Gardai investigating his leaking of documents

    Unless he leaked the docs to Mr Storey, i fail to see the relevance

    A poster suggested that a politician being interviewed by police was unusual.

    I merely responded and pointed out that it wasn’t, and showed an example.


    Do you not see the relevance there, a chara.


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    #6004
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    A poster suggested that a politician being interviewed by police was unusual.

    I merely responded and pointed out that it wasn’t, and showed an example.


    Do you not see the relevance there, a chara.

    Varadkar isn't the first FG TD and minister to be a person of interest to the Garda, mid 90s and much more serious offence wasnt it,


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    #6005
    Ireland2021
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭Ireland2021


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    A poster suggested that a politician being interviewed by police was unusual.

    I merely responded and pointed out that it wasn’t, and showed an example.


    Do you not see the relevance there, a chara.

    No need to be condescending a chara

    It is unusual, there is a thread to discuss the matter on all things SF

    This is about Leos leaks and the Gardai thinking there maybe something illegal in it, that they are giving it a full investigation.

    Shouting SF this, SF that will only boast SF in the polls and elections so work away with the tactic that failed pre election


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    #6006
    blanch152
    Registered Users Posts: 27,901 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Varadkar isn't the first FG TD and minister to be a person of interest to the Garda, mid 90s and much more serious offence wasnt it,

    A person of interest?
    Ireland2021 wrote: »
    No need to be condescending a chara

    It is unusual, there is a thread to discuss the matter on all things SF

    This is about Leos leaks and the Gardai thinking there maybe something illegal in it, that they are giving it a full investigation.

    Shouting SF this, SF that will only boast SF in the polls and elections so work away with the tactic that failed pre election

    A full investigation?

    Why is it that whenever Leo gets into the news certain posters go into overdrive and hyperbole imagining things beyond where we are? Is there something about Leo that annoys you so much?


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    #6007
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    blanch152 wrote: »
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    A full investigation?

    Why is it that whenever Leo gets into the news certain posters go into overdrive and hyperbole imagining things beyond where we are? Is there something about Leo that annoys you so much?

    Why does he keep doing this to himself?

    Yeah, it's been reported by several news outlets that it's a full criminal investigation, not a preliminary investigation.

    I'm not sure of the veracity of Debbie McCann's claim, but I'm sure anyone can contact her by mail etc and ask her to clarify.

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    #6008
    Ireland2021
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭Ireland2021


    blanch152 wrote: »
    A person of interest?



    A full investigation?

    Why is it that whenever Leo gets into the news certain posters go into overdrive and hyperbole imagining things beyond where we are? Is there something about Leo that annoys you so much?

    Yes a full criminal investigation as reported by major newspapers in Ireland.

    I dont make up stuff unlike yourself


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    #6009
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,649 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Ireland2021 wrote: »
    Yes a full criminal investigation as reported by major newspapers in Ireland.

    I dont make up stuff unlike yourself

    Ah this is normal. As Trump said once "he could walk out on the street and shoot someone and get away it" well I think the defence shown in this thread of Varadkar this is the same. Varadkar has leaked a confidential document and he had admitted to this and yet there are still people trying to say that he did nothing wrong or that it wasn't confidential or that the i didn't have a dot and therefore it was ok for him to leak it.


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    #6010
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    seamus wrote: »
    It's a bit of both tbf, as the noise on this seems to be almost fully driven by Sinn Féin supporters online.

    It's been clear since November, that there's very little to this. If there was a strong case to answer, Leo would have already been interviewed under caution and a file sent to the DPP.
    The fact that all we have at this stage is Varadkar offering to have a chat with the Gardai says that it's unlikely to go anywhere.

    If true, does it matter? Leo did what he did. The Garda are investigating. Going after the whistleblower or critics is pure deflection.

    I doubt he'll end up in sing sing. For me the main issue is him leaking the confidential negotiation document to his pal, the then head of a rival union. Apologising for it and the FF/Greens patting him on the head.


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    #6011
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    seamus wrote: »
    Neither Chas Bowes, the Gardai, nor this HSE person are filling threads online going on and on about it, or creating hashtags and desperately trying to make them "trend" like that means something.

    FF/FG need to realise there's more than shinners have issues with FF/FG. FF/FG for a start. Folk within the Greens, that Aaron Forde chap etc. Sure even a young Leo Varadkar was often critical of departments he wasn't in.
    It's silly to cry shinners anytime FF/FG get found out IMO.


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    #6012
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    I’d like to know where the Competition Authority is on this and the wishy washy insider hamdshaking standards in public office ‘committee’. Giving commercially sensitive data to your mate who is in the business prior to tendering or bidding for contracts is a fairly disgusting act. Nursing Homes, Toll Roads, National Aquatic Swimming Centre, etc etc - now medical data - and this at the same time they want to make everyones private medical files and personal health history available for interested parties to have access to and ‘use for research’ - who the f* is supposed to be running these organisations? CAB and CA & Ombudsman should be all over them- least of all the gardaí.
    What else is being shredding or leaked while this goes in- its a total farce.


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    #6013
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    JustAThought wrote: »
    I’d like to know where the Competition Authority is on this and the wishy washy insider hamdshaking standards in public office ‘committee’. Giving commercially sensitive data to your mate who is in the business prior to tendering or bidding for contracts is a fairly disgusting act. Nursing Homes, Toll Roads, National Aquatic Swimming Centre, etc etc - now medical data - and this at the same time they want to make everyones private medical files and personal health history available for interested parties to have access to and ‘use for research’ - who the f* is supposed to be running these organisations? CAB and CA & Ombudsman should be all over them- least of all the gardaí.
    What else is being shredding or leaked while this goes in- its a total farce.

    I thought the broadband one was a laugh. The communications minister going for a meal with a bidder was shrugged off until the public got wind.


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    #6014
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,649 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    James Brown wrote: »
    I thought the broadband one was a laugh. The communications minister going for a meal with a bidder was shrugged off until the public got wind.

    Isn't that the first response to everything is to wave it off, nothing to see here and it's only when it doesn't go away does anything happen. We have seen it here on this thread with numerous posters dismissing the leaking of a confidential document as nothing to see here, he was ok to do it, it wasn't really confidential and the usual the public aren't interested excuse or SF made me do it.

    If you here any of those excuses then you know it is something that needs to looked at.


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    #6015
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    blanch152 wrote: »
    A person of interest?



    A full investigation?

    Why is it that whenever Leo gets into the news certain posters go into overdrive and hyperbole imagining things beyond where we are? Is there something about Leo that annoys you so much?

    You answered your own question.
    The chap tells lies and shows poor judgement. He's also prone to childish and bratty outbursts in interview, Dail questions and on social media.

    Why have you spent so much energy trying to dismiss his being investigated by the Garda as a nothing when we know if it were MLMD, Clare Daly or Mick Wallace you'd start a thread?


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    #6016
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    I take it Leo will be pursuing the defamation case against the village still? They seem to be doubling down in today's issue.

    https://twitter.com/VillageMagIRE/status/1362727593766772736?s=19


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    #6017
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    smurgen wrote: »
    I take it Leo will be pursuing the defamation case against the village still? They seem to be doubling down in today's issue.

    https://twitter.com/VillageMagIRE/status/1362727593766772736?s=19

    I'd say they're all lawyered up petrified by the thoughts of it.


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    #6018
    [Deleted User]
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    smurgen wrote: »
    I take it Leo will be pursuing the defamation case against the village still? They seem to be doubling down in today's issue.

    https://twitter.com/VillageMagIRE/status/1362727593766772736?s=19

    What defamation case?

    The Garda investigation is still in the preliminary stages.


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    #6019
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭golfball37


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What defamation case?

    The Garda investigation is still in the preliminary stages.

    Civil law is different animal. He can pursue that as he said he would regardless.


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    #6020
    [Deleted User]
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    golfball37 wrote: »
    Civil law is different animal. He can pursue that as he said he would regardless.

    I thought that he said that he wouldn’t?


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    #6021
    CrazyFather1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭CrazyFather1


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Civil law is different animal. He can pursue that as he said he would regardless.

    He never said he was taking out a defamation case. The Village have been running this all along

    He came out and said he was contacting his legal team at the start but nothing about a defamation case.

    This lie has been fired up here a few times, by the same few people, every time it is answered, wait a few days and fire it back up again


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    #6022
    Whatisthisnow
    Site Banned Posts: 301 ✭✭Whatisthisnow


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What defamation case?

    The Garda investigation is still in the preliminary stages.

    You better not get the Sunday Independent. Gardai looking to examine Leos phone records


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    #6023
    Dempo1
    Registered Users Posts: 26,978 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Whatisthisnow wrote: »
    You better not get the Sunday Independent. Gardai looking to examine Leos phone records

    And what was that re "Nothing to see here?????"

    No doubt its still SF, Independents, PPP, SD, Dustin, Zig & Zag"s etc fault, Tut Tut :)

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #6024
    CrazyFather1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭CrazyFather1


    Whatisthisnow wrote: »
    You better not get the Sunday Independent. Gardai looking to examine Leos phone records

    Headline in Indo
    "Gardaí may seize Varadkar's phone records over leak"

    Boards post
    Whatisthisnow wrote: »
    Gardai looking to examine Leos phone records

    Something got lost in translation
    The Garda might do 101 things during the investigation, Indo has to sell papers. As long as they stick "may" in front of everything they ain't lying


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    #6025
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Whatisthisnow wrote: »
    You better not get the Sunday Independent. Gardai looking to examine Leos phone records

    You mean this? “Gardaí may seize Varadkar's phone records over leak”?

    And this? “According to Garda headquarters, the force is still carrying out preliminary inquiries into a complaint over the Tánaiste's leaking of the document.

    However, gardaí say a full investigation into the controversy has not been launched at this stage.”


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    #6026
    Dempo1
    Registered Users Posts: 26,978 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    CrazyFather1 wrote: »
    Headline in Indo
    "Gardaí may seize Varadkar's phone records over leak"

    Boards post


    Something got lost in translation
    The Garda might do 101 things during the investigation, Indo has to sell papers. As long as they stick "may" in front of everything they ain't lying

    The headline is May seize, regardless, not a nice headline for Leo as he eats his weetabix this morning

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-may-seize-varadkars-phone-records-over-leak-40114193.html

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #6027
    CrazyFather1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭CrazyFather1


    Dempo1 wrote: »
    The headline is May seize, regardless, not a nice headline for Leo as he eats his weetabix this morning

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-may-seize-varadkars-phone-records-over-leak-40114193.html

    Sure they "may" interview people on boards. They may go to the moon and ask the man does he know anything.

    The word "may" says it all. I am sure Leo knows exactly via his legal team what the Garda are going to do long before the Indo does.


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    #6028
    CrazyFather1
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    You mean this? “Gardaí may seize Varadkar's phone records over leak”?

    And this? “According to Garda headquarters, the force is still carrying out preliminary inquiries into a complaint over the Tánaiste's leaking of the document.

    However, gardaí say a full investigation into the controversy has not been launched at this stage.”

    Too much sense in this post. Off with you now.


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    #6029
    Whatisthisnow
    Site Banned Posts: 301 ✭✭Whatisthisnow


    More damage to the FG party. All them elderly people who have always voted FG are seeing this wont go away and will start to doubt their great leader

    The opposition are laughing away in the background


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    #6030
    Dempo1
    Registered Users Posts: 26,978 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    You mean this? “Gardaí may seize Varadkar's phone records over leak”?

    And this? “According to Garda headquarters, the force is still carrying out preliminary inquiries into a complaint over the Tánaiste's leaking of the document.

    However, gardaí say a full investigation into the controversy has not been launched at this stage.”

    That's a slight contradiction on the Garda statement last week when it was clearly stated they were looking into matters, in plain English one would assume that suggests an enquiry /investigation whatever level it is?

    Curious then why the independent would add the suggestion Leo's phone maybe seized in its headlines , Where's that info coming from?

    This matter clearly not going away

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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    #6031
    CrazyFather1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 844 ✭✭✭CrazyFather1


    Whatisthisnow wrote: »
    More damage to the FG party. All them elderly people who have always voted FG are seeing this wont go away and will start to doubt their great leader

    The opposition are laughing away in the background

    Really? how do you know?
    Please share


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